A Progressive Conservative government would cut 100,000 people from the public payroll to try to balance the provincial budget by 2016, leader Tim Hudak said Friday, exempting only front-line health workers and those in the justice system.

The Tories would freeze public-sector wages, cut the pensions of newly hired public employees, eliminate the Ontario Power Authority and the “local health integration networks” that oversee regional health services. They’d end a tax credit that subsidizes seniors when they renovate their homes to make them more accessible and another one that reduces post-secondary tuition.